Senior Specialist, M&E Technology

Job Overview/Summary

Are you passionate about using technology to improve monitoring and evaluation? We are growing our team to improve the use of technology in M&E. Together we will develop and deploy new data tools, transition from paper to electronic data collection, and improve our data flows.

Key Responsibilities

1. Deployment of technologies for data collection

• Undertaking technology needs assessments for IRC programs

• Designing and implementing project plans for countries/programs transitioning to new data collection tools

• Configuration of non-standard project/program indicators in data collection tools

• Ensuring data validation is well embedded in the structure of data collection tools

• Collaborating with program, IT and supply chain teams to plan purchase of devices

• System training and ongoing end-user support for IRC staff and partners

2. Supporting data management, analysis and visualization

• Working from standard XLSX and PBIX templates, setting up indicator database and dashboard for visualizing M&E data.

• Providing training to M&E staff on indicator databases and dashboards

• Undertaking data quality assessments for current databases

• Migration or transformation of existing project or country level data in to standard data structures

3. Understanding user needs and ensuring these needs are well understood throughout the team

• Gathering user feedback on data tools during and after deployment

• Participating in requirements capturing and user acceptance testing (UAT) for new tools

• Sharing user feedback with colleagues in IT and other team feedback.

• At least 5 years of professional experience, including with technology tools used in humanitarian/development work.

• Experience of configuring and deploying some or all of Commcare, Kobo, Power BI, SQL Server or Power Apps

• Experience of providing technology support

• Knowledge of standard methodologies in database design

• Experience of delivering training

• Able to work independently and efficiently in a multifaceted environment

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working in humanitarian development, government or other organization that focus on serving clients with technology

• Experience of requirements analysis

• Experience of participating in User Acceptance Testing for new IT systems.